Video: Nicolas Cage's Superman Costume Test

Video: Nicolas Cage's Superman Costume Test

Every now and then the universe works exactly the way it's supposed to, which is evident from watching this costume test from Tim Burton's proposed version of Superman. Looks like fans dodged a Kryptonite bullet.

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By EdGross - Sep 22, 2009 05:09 AM EST
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Spilox
Spilox - 9/22/2009, 5:23 AM
WTF, hella happy that didn't happen :P. Cage looks like a dragqueen. :D
UltimateSpidey
UltimateSpidey - 9/22/2009, 5:23 AM
this cant be real and if it is, it has sent back the entire comic book movie website 19 years. i need to throw up
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 9/22/2009, 5:23 AM
How come my TIM BUTON video exclusive, and stuff didn't make it about SUPES lol!!!

Nice find though @ ED!!!

Luv the VID dude! I would've like seeing this movie,

Think about it, we didn't get SUPERMAN RETURNS till the next decade anyway lol, would'nt of mattered if it was made! ; )
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 9/22/2009, 5:31 AM
Other concept art and stuff i found =










Oh and a pic from the SUPERMAN REBORN that was never made too =

undeadpool
undeadpool - 9/22/2009, 5:32 AM
that last one on the video was an action figure with Cage face. sometimes the original vision with great possibilities is distorted by naysayers and ppl in power with no vision. Cage would have been Supes but no one would know the reason he seemed a bit odd was that he was in fact Bizarro. Nice climax leading to Superman Returns for real with much mystery and a superpowered battle.
ClintEastwood
ClintEastwood - 9/22/2009, 5:37 AM
That was scary.
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 9/22/2009, 5:38 AM




Undeadpool @ good stuff! ; )
Imran
Imran - 9/22/2009, 5:43 AM
I like him. He changed his surname to Cage (inspired by Luke Cage!) and he named his son Kal-El!

Why does he have long hair?? lolll... John Travolta as Batman and Nic Cage as Superman.. Now that's a real FACE/OFF.. lollllll
FilmGuy91
FilmGuy91 - 9/22/2009, 5:46 AM
please say its a fake.otherwise...it looks like shit.
RaMan
RaMan - 9/22/2009, 5:49 AM
After seeing that horrible video why wouldnt anyone be encouraged to make another Superman movie?
JaySchluffy
JaySchluffy - 9/22/2009, 5:52 AM
Oh...my....god....
Denn1s
Denn1s - 9/22/2009, 5:56 AM
looks cool. supes needs a modern costume
Jimdlux
Jimdlux - 9/22/2009, 6:06 AM
I don't think it would have been as bad if he had short hair. They wanted a darker Superman and Burton could have supplied that. In retrospect I liked Superman Returns (even though it was emo Superman) But it has Donner's look. Maybe Routh in In Burton's costume would have been a better idea. Maybe put Cage in another role instead of Superman, maybe Luthor? I really thought Spacey in the role would have saved the movie, but I think that's what killed it. It was like a merging of Gene Hackman and the cartoon Luthor. That should have just just picked 1 version of Luthor!
Imran
Imran - 9/22/2009, 6:26 AM
Cage could be Brainiac, Luthor or Zod :-P

He should sign up for Smallville haha
superman7
superman7 - 9/22/2009, 6:43 AM
Why would burton think this was remotely acceptable? thats not even superman...
Thank god!
(I dont really know how to embed something so here ya go-Im sure you've all seen the kevin smith video where he talks about the superman movie)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYhLIThTvk

superman7
superman7 - 9/22/2009, 6:45 AM
That video will make the picture of "Spider Braniac" that much funnier!
StephenStrange
StephenStrange - 9/22/2009, 6:46 AM
lol this is obviously just a prank
texasboy
texasboy - 9/22/2009, 6:53 AM
I think the idea was to have a Superman that was not so much a "god-like" being but more of a "Joe Average" type.
And then throw in Burton's dark imagry.
If we had a really good Superman film series done first, then playing with original ideas such as a "dark" version might be ok.
But do it right first. With a quality villian.
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 9/22/2009, 6:56 AM
Thank god this abomination never got made! It would have probably been better than Singer's toucht feely wimp of a Superman though! :)
TheSoulEater
TheSoulEater - 9/22/2009, 7:01 AM
Kal-El Scissor hands?
ASSASSIN666
ASSASSIN666 - 9/22/2009, 7:01 AM
Anyone who would choose Cage for Superman should be shot
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 9/22/2009, 7:21 AM
BANG!!!

: D
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 9/22/2009, 7:26 AM
CAGE was all wrong, (though DARTHSTERN will probably disagree lol).

; D

But the actual movie looks really good, less of a love story and more of a Superhero Doomsday type story!!

BRAINIAC actually don't look a kn*b there like he does normally in most SUPERMAN stuff lol.

BRING IN DOOMSDAY!!! = EPIC!

TheGrimm
TheGrimm - 9/22/2009, 7:46 AM
This DEFINITELY falls into the WTF category... I'm thinking the movie going world dodged a bullet on this one... Nick Cage as Superman, unbelievable...
ComradeX
ComradeX - 9/22/2009, 7:53 AM
Super Gay! lol
ASSASSIN666
ASSASSIN666 - 9/22/2009, 8:05 AM
LEEE- Routh, Doomsday, and a damn good script.
NerfHerder
NerfHerder - 9/22/2009, 8:25 AM
OMG! What was that? I can't get that horrible image out of my head!!!
mgalusick
mgalusick - 9/22/2009, 8:31 AM
That's not real. It looks like an action figure with Nick Cages head Photoshopped on.
supermarioworldE
supermarioworldE - 9/22/2009, 8:37 AM
That movie was always destined to fail. Tim Burton + Superman = BAD MOVIE. Burton probably would of had lois find out Superman's identity by having jor-el escort her into the fortress of solitude. Burton cannot make good action movies (Batman, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes)
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 9/22/2009, 8:45 AM
Burton was all wrong for Supes. Josh, I don't know if you have ever read a Superman comic, but he can be quite the touchy feely wimp in a man of steels body! Kinda the point. I would still rather that than the goth fantasy Burton would have made it.
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 9/22/2009, 8:53 AM
ASSASSIN @ HELL YEAH!!! ; )
Shadowelfz
Shadowelfz - 9/22/2009, 8:54 AM
Thanks Superman7 I hadnt seen that video before. It just goes to show you that the idiots in hollywood have no idea what theyre doing. Producers and directors have an disproportionate amount of control over a movie, with writers put on the sideline.
thwhtGuardian
thwhtGuardian - 9/22/2009, 9:08 AM
I'm no expert but that looks photoshoped to me. It looks, as someone else said, like an action figure, but then again maybe it's real and the costume was meant to look really plastic like. Who Knows.
Retribution13
Retribution13 - 9/22/2009, 9:12 AM
Better then the Smallville costume is all I have to say.
Shaman
Shaman - 9/22/2009, 9:16 AM
Damn, what a slow day... Articles about nothing left and right. The JLA film isn't getting made, Michael Cain has no credibility and this is an action figure!!! I mean, we don't really "need" to have news "everyday" added on the main page. If there isn't any, why put up stuff that could be made by anyone's retarded step child? You guys know i don't normally bitch about this so it really shows how bad it is today.
SciFiNut
SciFiNut - 9/22/2009, 9:18 AM
Guys - the picture is real. So is the amount of suck that Tim Burton would've injected into it. Thank GOD this didnt happen.
jallanr
jallanr - 9/22/2009, 9:21 AM
im wit u ror, and the movie could have been all right, but i am glad they didnt make it

woo hoo!
delpoi
delpoi - 9/22/2009, 9:27 AM
what in the holy hell was that????!!!! lmao
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